Skip to content

Richard Taruskin Quotes

1945–2022 United States

Richard Taruskin (April 2, 1945 – July 1, 2022) was an American musicologist, music historian, and critic who has written about the theory of performance, Russian music, 15th-century music, 20th-century music, nationalism, the theory of modernism, and analysis.

United States
Conductors

Random Richard Taruskin quote

1 quote

The nice thing about an -ism, someone once observed, is how quickly it becomes a wasm. Some musical wasms—academic-wasm, for example, and its dependent varieties of modern-wasm and Serial-wasm—continue to linger on artificial life support, thought, and continue to threaten the increasingly fragile classical ecosystem."

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Taruskin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.